Markham Bridge
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Plans for Quarter Million Structure
From Our Own Correspondent LAE. August 18.
IT is authoritatively reported that a bridge is to be built across the Mark ham, near Nadzab, at a cost of £250,000. It will be 1,008 feet long, and 13J feet wide.
It will be somewhat similar in design to the Bayley bridge, made famous in the war, but it will be built by crane instead of manpower. There will be seven spans, 144 feet apart. The piers will consist, in a general sense, of gravel within a heavy timber framework. Thus, should erosion at the base of the pier cause the gravel to sink, the gravel may be easily and cheaply replaced.
Lae residents would like to see another bridge built—the Bumbu River bridge.
The present structure is in imminent danger of collapse.